Employee Benefits - Northeast Ohio

The cost of benefits is rising significantly, while employees consistently seek more from their benefits packages. We can design an employee benefits program that makes sense for your company and your employees.

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Our experienced benefits professionals take the time to understand your business. They bring bold thinking and industry expertise to help you stay on top of regulations and economic trends and focus on your first priority – recruiting and retaining the best employees. They work as your benefits advocate to keep your organization vital over the long-term.

Which employee benefits are right for your business?

Use the yellow hot spots and explore how employee benefits can help attract, retain and protect your team.

Group Health Insurance

Risk Factor

One of the main factors in attracting and retaining good employees is the benefit program offered by employers. This typically starts with your group health insurance plan.

Solution

Regardless of the company’s financials, there are ways to make health insurance available to your employees and their dependents. Offering health insurance doesn’t have to break the bank. There are many solutions available to small, mid-size and large employers.

Group Life Insurance

Risk Factor

When employees are worried about their financial situation, they may not be as productive. Many individuals today do not have life insurance or adequate savings to cover final expenses, which places additional stress on employees and/or their families when the need arises.

Solution

A group life insurance plan can put your employees’ minds at ease, knowing their family will have resources available when they need them. Policies can also include a dependent benefit to help the employee pay for expenses if their dependent passes. Another solution is to offer a voluntary life benefit whereby the employee pays a lower premium through payroll deduction than they would if they found coverage on their own. Group life insurance is also tax deductible.

Disability

Risk Factor

Many employers are faced with offering lower wages than their competitors and find it difficult to find and retain qualified workers.

Solution

Offering a short-term and/or a long-term disability program can provide prospective and current workers with another form of financial stability. An employee may be offered a higher wage elsewhere, but are they offered protection if that paycheck stops due to pregnancy, illness or other disability? How will they pay the mortgage or other bills? Employers offering a disability plan can provide peace of mind to their employees and gain an advantage over those that don’t.

Group Dental Coverage

Risk Factor

Failure to have regular dental checkups can lead to more serious problems than a toothache.

Solution

Offering dental coverage to your employees can help encourage them to see a dentist on a regular basis. Gum disease has been linked to heart disease as well as diabetes. Catching these issues early not only helps your employees’ health, it may help reduce your long-term health insurance costs before a big claim hits!

Vision Care Coverage

Risk Factor

Similar to dental coverage, if your employees are not getting regular eye exams, they may have underlying medical conditions such as heart disease or diabetes that can surface later at a greater expense to your medical plan.

Solution

Offering vision care coverage is a very affordable component to offering health benefits. It’s an inexpensive portion of the benefit package with a high value of return and can help offset the impact of increased medical costs, becoming a cost-effective, early intervention tool.

Voluntary Coverage

Risk Factor

Not being able to meet an employee’s individual needs can pose a threat to worker retention and attracting new talent, both of which can be costly to your bottom line.

Solution

Offering voluntary coverage lets your employees choose benefits that are important to them. It’s a cost-effective way to provide a variety of benefits at little or no impact to your monthly premiums. Examples of voluntary coverage include:

critical illness, hospital indemnity, cancer coverage

life, dependent life, short-term and long-term disability coverage

dental care

vision care

Compliance Audits

Risk Factor

Compliance audits are increasing and Department of Labor fines can be costly. Do you have all of the documents and paperwork at your fingertips should you receive an audit letter?

Solution

A good benefits broker will educate you on the compliance pieces so that you are prepared for that dreaded day. A wrap document covers most of what is required and the remaining forms should be readily accessible with proof of distribution to employees and/or eligible participants.

Group Health Insurance

In general, group health insurance is the first priority for employees and is the second largest expense for employers behind payroll. We’ll help you navigate the healthcare process so you can hire and retain top talent.

Disability Insurance

Disability insurance protects your employees from a temporary loss of income and is a fundamental part of a quality employee benefits package. We’ll implement a plan structured just for you.

Employee Assistance Plan

An employee’s emotional well-being can affect work performance, impacting the company’s bottom line. We’ll help you design a program that supports a happy, healthy, and productive workforce.

Group Voluntary Benefits

Even if you’re unable to offer healthcare benefits, you can give your employees the opportunity to secure valuable coverage at significantly lower rates than they’d pay as individuals. We’ll help you give your employees more.

Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance

Some employees may want coverage that goes beyond life insurance or workers compensation. They want to be covered in the event of an accident, on or off the job. We can provide that added financial protection.

Long-Term Care Insurance

Offering long-term care insurance as a employee benefit can be an integral part of your strategy to recruit and retain the best talent, contain costs, and enhance employee productivity. We’ll guide you through the process.

About Lake Shore Insurance Agency

We’re an independent insurance agency offering a comprehensive suite of insurance solutions to protect you from the unexpected.

We don’t just sell insurance. We work closely with clients to help them make important and informed decisions every day when it comes to protection and their future.

We offer comprehensive insurance solutions throughout all of Ohio, including Cleveland, Akron, Chardon, Northfield, Newton Falls, Hudson, Strongsville and Amherst.

Our Mission

At Lake Shore Insurance Agency, we strive to provide a true, concierge client experience which is unique in the insurance industry. We give clients the power of choice from top-rated national and regional insurance carriers.